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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Orientalism Now, Part IV: The Latest Phase.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was William Whiston expelled from Cambridge for his Islamic enthusiasm?
(a) 1665.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1709.

2. Who is credited in Chapter 3 as having said, "racial theory, stimulated by a rising nationalism, supported by an incomplete and mal-assimiilated science, was almost indisputed" (232)?
(a) Lionel Trilling.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) V. W. Richards.
(d) E. M. Forster.

3. Who wrote an article for Harper's magazine stating that "Arabs are basically murderers and that violence and deceit are carried in the Arab genes" (287)?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Emmett Tyrrell.
(c) Gaston Bachelard.
(d) Julius Mohl.

4. Who wrote Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes?
(a) Charles Wilkins.
(b) Edward William Lane.
(c) President de Brosses.
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.

5. What did the Marquis de Vogue's work center on?
(a) Sanskrit philology.
(b) Russian history.
(c) Palmyrian epigraphy.
(d) Syrian philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was L'Avenir de la Science published?

2. Who was the first East India Company official who mastered Sanskrit and began to translate the Institutes of Manu?

3. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?

4. Who is cited in Chapter 3 as having said, "... truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are" (203)?

5. What poem by Goethe is quoted and described by the author as identifying the Orient as "a place of original opportunity" in Chapter 2?

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